BSE at University of Wisconsin-Madison

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BSE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 33 BSE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 24 more BSE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on BSE, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BSE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at BSE 460

  1. MATH 112College Algebra
  2. MATH 211Survey of Calculus 1
  3. CHEM 103General Chemistry I
  4. CHEM 104General Chemistry II
  5. CHEM 341Elementary Organic Chemistry
  6. BSE 460Biorefining: Energy and Products from Renewable Resources

• 6 courses deep, ending at BSE 461

  1. MATH 112College Algebra
  2. MATH 211Survey of Calculus 1
  3. CHEM 103General Chemistry I

• 5 courses deep, ending at BSE 405

  1. MATH 112College Algebra
  2. MATH 211Survey of Calculus 1
  3. CHEM 103General Chemistry I

• 4 courses deep, ending at BSE 571

  1. MATH 112College Algebra
  2. MATH 211Survey of Calculus 1
  3. MATH 222Calculus and Analytic Geometry 2

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BSE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BSE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

BSE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UW–Madison campus feed.